FFW Early Access - PATCH 0.1.1.3

Howdy y'all!

You may be wondering why we have swapped from v6xx to v0.1.1.1

We recently decided to change the version number to better reflect the... well, version of the game. Instead of having a single number that increased, we now break down the updated version into these categories;

With the first 0. representing Early Access (Spoiler: will turn to 1 in 1.0 launch)

And without further ado, onto the patch notes!

Most feedback that we received regarding the higher difficulties were that is was too simple and not challenging enough, with some people managing to win games without picking up any joker during their mission. These changes aim to make the Nightmare difficulty more challenging, hence giving an incentive to complete side objectives and collect jokers throughout the game. This is obviously just a small portion of what we want to do to increase the challenge of higher difficulties!

They are bigger, stronger, bolder!

Run faster, spam attacks, lot of HP. Real stalkers.

spawn 3 shockwaves instead of 1 and summon semi-homing projectiles. Also lot of HP!

Rapid fire, lot of HP and teleports when attacking.

Rapid fire, can create a barrage. Lot of HP!

• Elite enemies have 75% chance of spawning if you trigger a storm (not including boss storms)

• Battlecries are tied to a hat that you can equip in the skin shop!

• Press B to throw your hat and YEEHAW!

• Added in-game grunts/gurgles/barks to characters for different actions and pings, based on your equipped hat

Balancing a weapon, joker, spell or whatever doesn’t mean we’ll never touch it again, don’t worry! It means that we’re trying to find a fix to make it better or more balanced with limited time. We know that sometimes, things need a rework and not simply a stat change, but a rework takes way more time than simply changing numbers around.

• Buffed hipfire and ADS accuracy by 20%

Inspect animation is shorter and no longer occupies the full screen

Bow gameplay relies on explosions that previously did not give any XP, making the bow confusing and tedious to level up. This change drastically improves the consistency of XP obtained, which means the XP multiplier being way higher for the bow than other weapons is no longer necessary.

• Explosions now give XP based on their damage and the number of enemies hit!

• Bow XP multiplier was lowered to match the multiplier of other secondary weapons

• The first bullet in your magazine has 100% accuracy and shoots further away > The first 3 bullets in your magazine have 100% accuracy and shoot further away

• The shotgun now displays a dot crosshair when Rush Blast is active

• Consecutive shots without missing grant +5% damage, stacking up to +50% > Consecutive shots without missing grant +10% damage, stacking up to +50%

• While aiming, your shots have perfect accuracy > While aiming, your shots have perfect accuracy, and you are not slowed down

• Every 20 bullets fired, shoot 5 homing bullets at nearby enemies > The first and last shot of your magazine fires 5 homing bullets at nearby enemies (projectiles now prioritize multiple targets but can still focus on one)

• Now increases Bend Speed for the Bow (instead of Firerate that did nothing)

• Every player now has it’s own set of 2 portals, meaning you can have up to 8 portals in a game

These changes have the same purpose as the new elite ennemies, making the game more challenging in higher difficulties.

• Now instantly start attacking after finishing their spawn animation (used to be a 0.5 sec. delay)

• Now jump on the player in Nightmare

• The projectile no longer applies gravity on Very Hard+

• Projectiles are faster on Very Hard+

• Now invisible from Hard+ instead of Very Hard+

• Now teleport when hit in Very Hard+

• Now remain always invisible in Nightmare

• Now shoot a wider and faster shockwave

• Now shoot an homing projectile in Nightmare

Items required for each stage have been reduced

Very minor bugfixes and tweaks are not listed

• Items held by players should now properly drop on the ground if they leave, are kicked/banned or use ALT+F4

• Cryptic Scanners (eyes in the sky) should now properly target players whether you’re the host or the client

• Loot Coyotes should no longer get stuck in the environment

• Dead players should now properly be able to move again if the teammate that was resurrecting them gets pushed by a Cryptic Bull

• Dying while climbing a rope should now properly stop the climbing audio, and players should be able to still use the rope after respawning

• Players should no longer be able to duplicate and start multiple quests at the same time when there is a desync/lags

• Mounting a horse while holding the emote wheel key should no longer lock the UI on the screen

• Voodoo Candles should no longer appear on puddles that have already disappeared

• Leveredge: ADS sensitivity is now the same as all other weapons

• Animation meshes while emoting are now the correct size when Joker Giant or Joker Dwarf are active

• ???? Cactus Pistolero: should no longer target corrupted ennemies

• ⚡ Elec Portal: throwing a portal into another one should no longer make another portal disappear with no reason

• ???? Pyro Wisp: no longer targets corrupted enemies

• ???? Voodoo Doll: the speed bonus should now properly work

• Joker Shine Bright: should now update instantly when you equip it, especially when playing with the Marauder or Blink skins

• Joker Hoarder: jokers dropped from Hoarder should now properly appear in your inventory

• Joker Lazy: should now correctly return ammo when using the Sheriff Stars, the Minigun and the Dual Revolvers

• Joker Toolbox: should now correctly work with Care Package

• Joker Speedster:

  • Should now take Joker Scavenger Star speed buff into account

  • Should now take Voodoo Doll speed buff into account

• Joker Giant: you should no longer have a permanently reduced size after entering and exiting small areas

• Joker Eagle Lever:

  • Shooting on bells from Joker Bell Shot should no longer reset the stacks

  • Switching weapons should no longer reset the stacks

  • Using Joker Ricochet should no longer reset the stacks

• Joker Eagle Lever + Joker Camper: should no longer consume 2 reserve ammo when you have two Camper equipped

• Reduced camera tilt when moving right/left

• The Wandering Trader should no longer offer the same Joker at the same time when trading with her

• Joker Rampage, Joker Soul Eater, Joker Hit Me now display their remaining duration

• Spanish (Latin America) and Turkish are now available

• Reverted Titles for “Reach Level 100 in X element” back to their previous name, added the ones from Update 1 as a separate reward obtainable by doing the “Reach Level 75 in X element” challenge

• Simplified Difficulty descriptions on Mission selection

• Rearranged Bestiary categories

• Friendly fire is now limited to 25HP per hit max, to avoid your evil sniper friend to one shot you

  • This will also greatly reduce griefers who used to abuse friendly fire by joining sessions, one-shotting everyone, and leaving.

Thanks for readin'! let us know what you think of this patch, and we'll see y'all out WEST!!